NYT error: Fox News is not top rated
By Christopher B. Daly Today’s Times has an interesting (though somewhat thin) story about the relationship between president Obama and Fox News. One thing caught my eye: But now, with the...
View ArticleObama: Media Critic?
By Christopher B. Daly Even on vacation, I couldn’t help noticing this piece in today’s Times about President Obama’s news-reading habits and his criticisms of some of the coverage. As a media critic...
View ArticleTough call
By Christopher B. Daly I’m not sure why, but I am finding it hard to sort out the issues in the flap over CNN’s use of the diary of the late U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. I guess it’s...
View ArticleDick Morris: wrong or stupid?
By Christopher B. Daly Among the many satisfactions on election night 2012 was seeing Dick Morris, the smarmy former Clinton political adviser, get slapped around the head by the facts. Just a few days...
View ArticleMath for journalists (and everyone else too)
By Christopher B. Daly In the wake of last week’s election, many Republicans seems to be facing not only a political problem but also an epistemological one. Epistemology is the term philosophers use...
View ArticleNew NYT exec: Up to the job?
By Christopher B. Daly Mark Thompson is wrapping up his first week as the new president and chief executive of the New York Times Company. That role puts him in a critical position in U.S. journalism,...
View ArticleHow to break into the news business
By Christopher B. Daly Well, here’s one way: 1. Start off with a career in modeling. 2. Become a Republican. 3. Never work as a reporter/editor/photographer. 4. Join FOX News as a highly paid on-air...
View ArticleNBC News now a tiny cog in Comcast
By Christopher B. Daly It is worth noting that the once-mighty NBC News division is now a tiny cog in the giant money-making machine that is Comcast. Exercising a legal prerogative, the giant cable...
View ArticleShameless self-promotion (Journalism history division)
By Christopher B. Daly Finally, it’s here: the electronic version of my book about the history of U.S. journalism, Covering America. Just in time for the anniversary of the rollout of the hardback,...
View ArticleShould Murdoch be able to buy the L.A. Times?
By Christopher B. Daly Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch is not finished trying to acquire more news outlets, despite his unsavory legal problems. His latest target is the L.A. Times, the paper...
View ArticleThe Constitution is for everyone
By Christopher B. Daly One of the most serious recent threats to press freedom is playing out in Colorado. It involves a reporter for FoxNews.com who is the target of a subpoena by a state prosecutor...
View ArticleUn-bundling the media
By Christopher B. Daly In his latest column, the New York Times‘ David Carr makes a smart argument about how the media — both entertainment and news — are coming apart under pressure from the Web....
View ArticleCNN gets it wrong
By Christopher B. Daly In his column in today’s New York Times, David Carr analyzes CNN’s self-inflicted wound caused by wrongly reporting the arrest of a suspect in the Marathon bombing case. In...
View ArticleThe bombing case: “Total Noise”?
By Christopher B. Daly Here is a fine piece that features the author Jim Gleick thinking in print about the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and related events. (Full disclosure: I have known...
View ArticleCan journalism get by without advertisers?
By Christopher B. Daly Why should journalism depend on advertising? There is nothing logical, necessary or inevitable about it. Originally, advertising was a trivial source of income for 18th Century...
View ArticleWhere Obama is dangerously wrong about journalism
Don’t miss this excellent piece by Glenn Greenwald, which ran recently in The Guardian. In it, Greenwald — a lawyer, journalist, and prize-winning author — carefully builds a case about what the Obama...
View ArticleTV in courtrooms? TV in statehouses?
By Christopher B. Daly In America, where the people attempt to rule themselves, why should we not have access to even the innermost reaches of our executive, legislative and judicial branches of...
View ArticleThe re-making of the news media
By Christopher B. Daly We are living through a period of great flux in the news business. There are new ventures, new hybrids, new devices for gathering and disseminating information, documents, and...
View ArticleSurveillance roundup
[NSA Out]* *Now, there’s some metadata for you. Back in the day when I worked for the Associated Press, we had to “slug” our material with various directives, indicating who had access to the material...
View ArticleLet cameras into court
By Christopher B. Daly As I recently argued, we the people deserve to have cameras in all our courtrooms (except maybe juvenile court) and our legislative bodies. The latest case in point: the...
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